The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Nottingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 29 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 6 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.974% 2.691% -
As % of the Application Development category 9.375% 8.108% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £363 £273 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.02% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 74 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 21.05% 33.18% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 48 28
Average daily rate £290 £288 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -10.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -10.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WPF
Nottinghamshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WPF across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Nottingham WPF Jobs Demand Trend

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing WPF also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WPF.

1 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 21 (91.30%) C#
3 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
4 11 (47.83%) Web Services
5 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
5 10 (43.48%) REST
6 9 (39.13%) MVVM
6 9 (39.13%) Linux
7 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
8 6 (26.09%) .NET Framework
9 5 (21.74%) WCF
9 5 (21.74%) Dependency Injection
9 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (21.74%) SOA
9 5 (21.74%) OO
9 5 (21.74%) Perl
10 4 (17.39%) TDD
11 3 (13.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (13.04%) SQL
11 3 (13.04%) IIS
11 3 (13.04%) Finance
12 2 (8.696%) WinForms
12 2 (8.696%) MSMQ
12 2 (8.696%) OOD
12 2 (8.696%) SOAP
12 2 (8.696%) Windows
12 2 (8.696%) Managed Extensibility Framework
12 2 (8.696%) Twitter
12 2 (8.696%) Unity DI Container
12 2 (8.696%) NUnit

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing WPF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 11 (47.83%) Web Services
3 10 (43.48%) REST
4 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
5 6 (26.09%) .NET Framework
6 5 (21.74%) WCF
7 3 (13.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (8.696%) WinForms
8 2 (8.696%) MSMQ
8 2 (8.696%) SOAP
8 2 (8.696%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (8.696%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (8.696%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) SNMP
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (4.348%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) NUnit
1 2 (8.696%) MSTest
1 2 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Retail
2 1 (4.348%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (56.52%) C# Developer
3 12 (52.17%) .NET Developer
4 10 (43.48%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (30.43%) SQL Developer
5 7 (30.43%) SQL Server Developer
6 6 (26.09%) WPF Developer
7 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (21.74%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (17.39%) Database Developer
8 4 (17.39%) SQL Database Developer
9 2 (8.696%) Architect
9 2 (8.696%) C# Architect
9 2 (8.696%) .NET Architect
10 1 (4.348%) Front-End Developer
10 1 (4.348%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (4.348%) Senior C# Developer
10 1 (4.348%) Senior .NET Developer
10 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
10 1 (4.348%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 2 (8.696%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
2 9 (39.13%) MVVM
3 5 (21.74%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (21.74%) SOA
3 5 (21.74%) OO
4 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 2 (8.696%) OOD
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.348%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) Perl
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.348%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (8.696%) Twitter
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft